A project by Kazuki Nagata (2nd-year Master's student at the Graduate School of Media and Governance), a member of Professor Akira Wakita's laboratory in the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, has been selected for the FY2025 Agency for Cultural Affairs Media Arts Creator Support Program.
The Agency for Cultural Affairs Media Arts Creator Support Program is an initiative organized by the Agency for Cultural Affairs aimed at supporting the creative activities of young creators who will lead the next generation of the media arts field.
In its 15th year, the Domestic Creator Presentation Support Program received 92 project applications, and 24 projects, including Nagata's project "Bedtown AI," were selected. Other SFC graduates were also selected for the Domestic Creator Presentation Support Program.
Nagata's solo exhibition, supported by this program, is scheduled for February 2026, and the overall achievement presentation event for the program is scheduled to be held from February 28 to March 8.
Selected Project
Bedtown AI
Kazuki Nagata
Comment from Kazuki Nagata
I am very happy to have been selected for this program. The selected project, "Bedtown AI," is a project that uses data centers as a motif to contemplate suburban landscapes in a post-AI world. Rather than keeping AI confined to information space, I seek to explore a new relationship between humans and AI by capturing it from its physical aspects.
I would like to express my gratitude to Professor Akira Wakita for his valuable advice and guidance on this project, as well as to my co-supervisors Professor Takahiro Kunieda and Professor Fumitoshi Kato, and everyone in the laboratory.